“Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.”

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”

“There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.”

“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.”

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”

“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”

“A little apish hat, couched fast to the pate, like an oyster;
French cambric ruffs, deep with a witness, starched to the purpose:
Delicate in speech; quaint in array; conceited in all points;
In courtly guiles, a passing singular odd man.”

“Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.”

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”

“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”